Your Mail 8-16-2014: Common Core, Reply to letter

In reference to the August 2nd front-page Town Talk article about Senator David Vitter's condoning of Common Core, it sounds like he wants this complicated dribble of a distracting curriculum to stay in place for principals to micro-manage on teachers who feel it is difficult to implement and teach and students unable to understand and comprehend a teaching model that is riddled with complexity.

Additionally, I think this is another attempt by Sen. Vitter to feather his own hat, garner more support from Common Core fanatics, and bump up another windfall of millions of dollars in donations to his 2015 race for the governor's seat.

I wonder if any brothels in New Orleans have made any miscellaneous contributions to his ambitious political future? What a disgrace of what was once a man touting family values first. I wish Vitter lovers would wake up and realize this man is no saint, but just another bureaucrat republican insider in for his enrichment. His being caught soliciting the prostitutes in the French Quarter has only made him more popular because his personality is even more colorful in a state known for its characters. That's so sad.

Evan Davidson

Alexandria

Response to letter

I have become aware of Mr. Danny Bordelon's letter of August 5 criticizing President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for allegedly turning their backs on Israel. Mr Bordelon conveniently overlooks the administration's stellar record in providing Israel with the funding for Iron Dome, the missile defense system that has saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives, as well as ongoing aid and cooperation in promoting Israel's defense.

PM Netanyahu and both of his ambassadors to the United States, Michael Oren and Ron Dermer, have sung the praises of the president and the secretary for supporting Israel in all the ways that matter, before and during the Gaza conflict.

Contrast that record with the documented statements of republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul, who would eliminate all aid to Israel, and with the republican senators and representatives who initially blocked funding for replenishing Iron Dome and scampered off for vacation.

Whenever long-time opponents of Mr. Obama run out of facts, they resort to falsehoods. Mr. Bordelon suggests that the president is a product of "Columbia University SDS."

Students for a Democratic Society disbanded in 1969, when Barack Obama was eight years old. He attended Columbia from 1981 to 1983 and, by his own account, was uninvolved in any kind of campus life.